Would it have been rivetted originally? Could you get a period travel label to paste over the dull bit. Removing an old label may be why it is dull.
Is there any interest among ephemera collectors for this type of stuff. If there isn't, there ought to be.
They are horses reaching a winning post (Victoire). Longchamps is a French horseracing centre, like Newmarket or wherever they do it in America....
The 'Virgins of Raphael' folio does look like a product from about 1900.
Maple is a good bet. In North America, certainly, but it is not seen much in Europe. Most maples (Acer spp.) are imported cultivars for...
The things in the sinister and dexter chief corners (thats heraldic speak for top right and left) could be cloves, to refer to the spice trade....
There are plenty around that old. No real value though. You might see examples advertised online, but they are just imaginative prices. Early...
That's funny, they don't look Jewish. :-) Second one looks like a pre-Raphaelite stained glass design.
That looks like an ivory ruler.
Paris was a source for much fancy stuff supplied to Russia. Some upper class Russians were so Francophile they'd not speak Russian.
Possibly beech, more likely one of the imported East Asian hardwoods of which there are many with that appearance.
Yes, LL does look more like it.
It is not rosewood.
It appears to be Cyrillic. (Russian) . The letters are KK.
The workmanship looks home made. It looks as if someone had a silver tray and did their own artwork in the center. The design around the edge...
My thought was Polish or Czech. Certainly not English.
Keen collectors of Conan Doyle, Verne, Wells, etc will pay well for the original magazines these stories were first published in. Not sure how...
Try resizing your pictures to about 1000 pixels across, saving them, then using the board 'upload a file' function. (beside 'Post Reply') Select...
The cufflinks aopear to have an arabic mark, 21 probably means 21 carat. The second item has a 14 carat mark. No idea on the box. The gold is...
I have ony just re-read the whole thing, but the last few lines are priceless. "I must now conclude my lay By telling the world fearlessly...
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